Self Worth

“She posted a photo with the group and I wasn't invited and I don't even like going out but it still hurts.”

“I ate the leftover pasta standing over the sink again and I don't know why I can't just sit down like a normal person.”

“My son said I was embarrassing him in front of his friends and I keep turning it over in my head even though he's been asleep for hours.”

“I watched my little sister get the reaction from mom that I never got for anything I did and I don't know what to do with that feeling.”

“I said something edgy in the group chat to seem funny and no one responded and I've been staring at it for twenty minutes.”

“I keep buying things to fill my apartment and it's starting to look nice from the outside and feel the same on the inside.”

“I apologized first again even though I don't think I did anything wrong, and now I resent both of us for it.”

“I'm watching her life on Instagram and I don't even know her that well and yet I feel genuinely behind somehow.”

“I woke up in the middle of the night and my first thought was about something I said to someone in 2017.”

“I'm starting to realize I built my whole identity around achievement and now that I'm between things I don't know who I am.”

“I've started measuring my worth by how many messages I get in the morning and I know that's not healthy but I don't know how to stop.”

“I ate lunch alone again today and kept my headphones in so it would look intentional.”

“My doctor said the numbers are fine but I've been lying awake thinking about the ones that were borderline.”

“I think I've been performing being okay for so long that I don't always know the difference anymore.”

“I spent the whole yoga class making a grocery list in my head.”

“My friend is going through something hard and I've been showing up for her and some small part of me is waiting for it to be my turn.”

“I think I stayed in that job two years too long because I was scared and now I'm trying to figure out if that was stupid or human.”

“My mom said she's proud of me and I waited my whole life to hear that and I didn't feel what I thought I'd feel.”

“I walked into the kitchen for something and stood there for a full minute and couldn't remember what it was and I'm only 34.”

“I've been saying yes to everything because I'm afraid that if I say no people will stop asking.”

“I keep thinking about that one comment my English teacher made when I was sixteen and how much it still shapes what I write.”

“I want to ask for help but I've been competent for so long that I don't know how to frame it without it sounding like failure.”

“I took the compliment and said thank you and felt like a fraud the whole way home.”

“I've started saying I'm an introvert because it's easier than explaining that I'm just afraid of not being liked.”

“I drove to the party, sat outside for five minutes, and went home, and I didn't tell anyone.”

“I laughed at something today for the first time in a while and then I felt guilty about it, which tells me something.”

“I keep comparing my relationship to people who've been together for twenty years and we've been together for ten months.”